works
exhibition view Excesso Chamalo by Marie Losier, (photo Aurélien Mole)
exhibition view Excesso Chamalo by Marie Losier, (photo Aurélien Mole)
Marie Losier
Gloopie au paradis (Ben Russell), 2023
aquarelle and pencil on paper
57,5 x 82,5 cm
Marie Losier
jolis pieds poilus, 2023
céramic
33 x 13 x 9 / 33 x 13,5 x 10 cm
Marie Losier
Elise et Leo au grand galop!, 2023
aquarelle and pencil on paper
97 x 120 cm
Marie Losier
Hansel/ Gretel/ Pretzel, 2023
ceramic
15 x 10,5 x 10 cm /20 x 9 x 14 cm / 15 x 6,5 x 14 cm
Marie Losier
Super 8 carnivore, 2023
ceramic
35,5 x 29 x 7,5 cm
Marie Losier
Da Da Da (David Legrand), 2023
aquarelle and pencil on paper
89,5 x 79 cm / 86 x 97 cm with frame
Marie Losier
Sing sing, sleep slap (Sing Sing/Florian Caschera), 2023
aquarelle and pencil on paper
91,5 x 63 cm / 72 x 99 cm with frame
Marie Losier
Taxidermisez-moi, 2021
video (2021), feathers and acrylic on wood
ed. 1/3
41 x 43 x 43 cm
Marie Losier
Taxidermisez-moi , 2021
camera 16mm, 9.45’min 
Marie Losier Rire et Dance, 2021
video (2021), glitter, mirrors and acrylic on wood
ed. 1/3
33,5 x 37 x 40cm
Marie Losier
Rire et Dance, 2021
with camera 16mm
ed. 1/3
5.22’min
Marie Losier
Flying Saucey, 2021 (video 2006)
wig and acrylic on wood
film : 1.59′ / box : 37 x 40 x 33 cm
ed. 2/3
Marie Losier
Lunch break on the xerox machine, 2003
with a camera 16mm
3 minutes
MoMA, performance with Felix Kubin New York November 2018 
MoMA, performance with Felix Kubin New York November 2018 
Elina Lowenshon, 2019 oil paint on rice paper 98 x 65 cm / 104 x 72 cm (with frame) (photograph Aurélien Mole) 
David Legrand, 2019 oil paint on rice paper 98 x 61 cm / 104 x 72 cm (with frame) (photograph Aurélien Mole) 
exhibition Hello Hapiness, centre d’art le BBB, Toulouse le Printemps de Septembre 
Elina et les paillettes, 2019 film 9 minutes, wooden box and feathers 37 x 40 x 33 cm (photograph Aurélien Mole) 
Felix aux pays des merveilles, 2019 film / box and green moss 37 x 41 x 38 cm (photograph by Aurélien Mole) 
installation Eat My Make-up! film 6’, 2005 
Eat My Make-up! film 6’, 2005 
Tim Tim, 2019 oil paint on rice paper 71,5 x 56 / 78 x 64 cm (with frame) (photograph Aurélien Mole)
biography
Marie Losier (b.France, 1972), is a filmmaker and curator who’s worked in New York City for 23 years and has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. Losier studied literature at the University of Nanterre (France, BA, 1995) and Fine Arts at Hunter College, City University of New York (MFA, 2003). She has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, artists, musicians and composers, such as the Kuchar brothers, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, Genesis P-Orridge, Alan Vega, Peter Hristoff, Peaches and Felix Kubin. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists.
Losier’s films are regularly shown at prestigious venues such as The Cannes Film Festival, The Berlinale, The Rotterdam Film Festival, IDFA, The Tate Modern, MoMA, Le Palais de Tokyo, Le Centre Georges Pompidou and La Cinémathèque Francaise. She was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, N.Y.C). She had a retrospective of her films at MoMA – Museum of Modern Art in NYC – in 2018 and the museum acquired all of her films for the MoMA archives. In 2019, she presented a mid career retrospective at Le Jeu De Paume, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Paris as well as for the Cinematheque of Athens in 2019 and the Cinematheque of Brussels in 2021.
Losier’s first feature film was a portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and her partner Lady Jaye. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2011, winning the Caligary and the Teddy Awards. She also won the Grand Prize at Indielisboa, the Prix Louis Marcorelles and the Prix des Bibliothèques at Cinéma du Réel; the film was released in cinemas in France, Canada, Mexico, Germany and in the USA.
In 2013/14 Losier was awarded the prestigious DAAD Residency Award in Berlin and the Guggenheim Award to work on her new feature film Cassandro The Exotico!, a portrait of the celebrated Mexican wrestler Saul Almendariz. Cassandro The Exotico! produced by Tamara Films, premiered at The Cannes Film Festival in May of 2018 (ACID CANNES). It was released in France in 2018 and in 2019 in the US (it premiered at the Metrograph NYC).
She premiered a new film, Felix in Wonderland!, at Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland in 2019: a feature film on the German musicien and composer, Felix Kubin. The film is produced by Ecce Films.
She had an exhibition, in collaboration with Pauline Curnier Jardin, at the Fondation Ricard in 2019, a first solo exhibition at the Anne Barrault’s gallery in Paris, where she exhibited drawings and film installations (January 2020). She also had a solo show at the Film Gallery in Paris (nov- dec 2021) and at The Solar Gallery in Vila Do Conde in Portugal for 2022. She is now showing in a group show at the Mac Val Museum.
She is presenting a new solo exhibition Excesso Chamalo at Anne Barrault’s Gallery in Paris until July 29th, 2023.
She is preparing two solo shows for 2024, at the Creux De L’enfer : Contemporary Museum of Thiers, and at the Institut Français in Phnom Penh, Cambodge. In 2025, she will present two solo exhibitions, one at the Contemporary Museum Le Transpalette in Bourges, and one at Le FRAC Dunkerque.
She has been working on a film portrait, for now 4 years, on the band The Residents from San Francisco, a film produced by Barberousse Films..
After 12 years in the making, she is finishing her film portrait on the singer-performer, Peaches, Peaches Goes Bananas!, a film co-produced by Tamara Films in Paris and Michigan Film in Bruxelles.
She is also developing with co-writer Antoine Barraud, her first fiction feature, a Musical Comedy, Sugar Bomb, produced by Tamara Films and Kidam Production.
A book on her work has been printed from publisher SEMIOSE: Please To Meet You Marie Losier (texts by Nicole Brenez and Constance Dejong)
Solo exhibitions
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
la face cachée de la réalisatrice, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
Hello Happiness, Centre national des arts modernes de la République du Bélarus
La Parole du Hibou, Festival (TJCC), vidéo et performance, programmation de Joris Lacoste au théâtre de Gennevilliers
Group exhibitions
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2015
Villa Arson – L’ECLAT, residency and film commission, Galerie Carrée, L’Échappée Vive (Nice, France) BUREAU, Galerie NYC: group show / looping films ! (USA)
MAC VAL, screening, collective exhibition Chercher le Garçon (France)
Triennial of Vendôme, L’art de s’égarer ou l’image du bonheur . A 3 month installation: cinema, sets, costumes, and performances. A collaboration piece by Marie Losier and La Galerie du Cartable (France)
Festival (TJCC), Théâtre de Gennevilliers. Video and performance. Curated by Joris Lacoste, collaboration with Simon Fravega (Gennevilliers, France)
Festival Rencontres Internationales, Transpalette – Contemporary Art Center. Performance withFelix Kubin, Bandits-Mages (Bourges, France)
St Petersburg Contemporary Art Museum, film installation & video (Russia)
Kunstverein in Hamburg, A Paradise Built in Hell, Scopitone installation and films (Germany)
2014
Les Soirées Nomades, Fondation Cartier. Cassandro El Exotico! : direction, performance, film installation… with Cassandro, Barbara Carlotti, Simon Fravega, Louise de Ville… (Paris)
Festival Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Biopic, with Jonathan Caouette and Bertrand Burgalat (Paris)
2013
Les Soirées Nomades, Fondation Cartier. Marie Déménage !, direction and performance, installation, with Joana Preiss, Peaches, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Simon Fravega, Jonathan Caouette…
Galerie Préface : Célébration, collaboration with Simon Fravega
Filmography
La Nature -music video- (2022), 16mm, 5 min, film, color, produced by Tamara Films, film by Marie Losier and Simon Fravega, with ARLT (Sing Sing and Eloise Decaze), music by ARLT from the album Turnetable
Taxidermisez moi (2021), 16mm, 10 min, color, with David Legrand, Jean-Pierre Petit, Simon Fravega, François Chaignaud, Eloise Decaze; premiered at FID Marseille 2021, Flash competition
Electric Storm, 100 Years of Theremine -music video- (2020), 16mm, 6 min, film, color, music by Dorit Chrysler, produced by Moog and Tamara Films, with Dorit Chrysler
Download Yourself – music video – (2020), 16mm, 5 min, film, color, music composed and sung by Felix Kubin, with Felix Kubin, Sophie Cavoulacos, Tony Torn, Juliana & M.J Francis Kelly, Oleg and Dima Dubson, Guy Greenberg, Dorit & Eik Chrysler, Marianne Shaneen, Victoria Keddie, M.V Carbon, Bradley Eros, Sam, Angie & Anna Diiorio, Margarita Jimeno, Joel Schlemowitz, Rachael & Gabriel Guma Rene Abernathy, Amelie Garin Davet, Steve Dalachinsky
Whitch is witch? (2020), 16mm, 6 min, film, color, with Felix Kubin, Joana Preiss, Claire Doyon and Elina Lowenhson
Felix in Wonderland! (2019), 16mm, 52 min, film, color and B&W, sound, music by Felix Kubin, with Felix Kubin
Cassandro, The Exotico! (2018), 16mm, 73 min, film, color, sound, with Cassandro alias Saul Almendariz Images of a Work #22 : Infinite Now (2017), video, 20 min, color, sound, commissioned by IRCAM and Cinéma Du Réel, film on Chaya Czernowin, composer and Professor of music at Harvard University
L’Oiseau de la Nuit (2015), 16mm, 20 min, color, with Deborah Kristal, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Joao Rui Guerra DaMata… Omnibus Film, HERE LISBON, produced by Indielisboa with Denis Cote, Gabriel Abrantes and Dominga Sotomaya
L’échappée Vive (2015), video, 24 min, color, co-directed with Catherine Libert, with Noël Dola & Ben Vaultier
Peaches and Jesper are on a boat, who stays afloat ? (2014), video, color, 5 min, with Peaches and Jesper Just / Venice Biennial
Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas! (2014), 16mm, color, 13 min, with The Moreno Sisters Alan Vega, Just a Million Dreams (2013), 16mm, color, 13 min, with Alan Vega, Liz Lamereand Dante Vega
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011), 16mm, color, sound, 72 min, with Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye, Psychic TV…
Buyn, Objet Trouvé (2012), 16mm, color, 6min, with Byun Chong and Kiya Chong Cet Air Là (2010), 16 mm, B&W, 3 min, with April March and Julien Gasc
Slap the Gondola! (2010), 16 mm, 15min, music April March, with April March, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge
Papal Broken Dance (2009), super 8 & 16 mm, 6 min, music PTV3, with Genesis P-Orridge Tony Conrad
Dreaminimalist (2008), 16mm, sound, 27 min, with Tony Conrad
Jaye Lady Jaye (2008), 16 mm, sound, 3 min, with Lady Jaye and PTV3
Snow Beard (2008), 16 mm, sound, 3 min, with Mike Kuchar
Manuelle Labor (2007), 16 mm, super 8, sound, 10 min, collaboration with Guy Maddin
Flying Saucey! (2006), 16 mm, color, sound, 9 min, with Flux Factory
The Ontological Cowboy (2005), 16 mm, color, sound, 15min, with Richard Foreman
Eat Your Makeup! (2005), 16 mm, color, sound, 6 min, with George Kuchar
Electrocute Your Stars (2004), 16 mm, color, sound, 10 min, with George Kuchar
Bird, Bath, and Beyond (2003), 16 mm, color, sound, 13 min, with Mike Kuchar
Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine (2003), 16 mm, B&W, silent, 3 min Sanitarium Cinema (2002), video, color, sound, 9 min
The Passion of Joan Arc (2002), video, color, sound, 9 min
Broken Blossoms (2002), video, color, sound, 10 min
Loula Meets Charlie (2002), video performance at the Ontological Theater, 7 min
The Touch Retouched (2002), video, color, sound, 6 min
press
ARTFORUM April 2020 review by Lillian Davies
THE ART NEWSPAPER * February 2020 by Camille Viéville
LE MONDE * 21 November 2019 by Clarisse Fabre
MEDIAPART * 7 December 2018 by Cédric Lépine
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL * Fall 2019 by Joel Schlemowitz
entretiens
Affaires Culturelles, Marie Losier et Arnaud Laporte, France Culture, 27 June 2023
<input> Marie Losier et Julien Bécourt, Fondation Pernod Ricard, 19 April 2023
Par les temps qui courent de Marie Richeux, France Culture, 13 November 2019
exhibitions
Gallery exhibitions
Marie Losier
10 June - 29 July 2023
Marie Losier
29 May 2021
Eat my Makeup!
11 January- 23 February 2020
books & prints
textes de Nicole Brenez et Constance de Jong
Semiose éditions
2021
23 x 30 cm
80 pages
14 €
